How many months is the SIM?
It was part of the deal so I'm guessing it's the same length of the contract?
How many months is the SIM?
I should mention I get phone in with that for £36, great for download games, I'd like to get 500Mb but the price doesn't warrant the upgrade, only takes about 10 mins to download 50GB I'm happy enough with that£32 here for M200, should be £29 (per my contract), though I hate calling VM.
I want to upgrade to M500 with Oomph (5GB SIM) ...though I really don't want to call VM, every time I've called in the past it's just been such hard work getting anywhere with them.
I should mention I get phone in with that for £36, great for download games, I'd like to get 500Mb but the price doesn't warrant the upgrade, only takes about 10 mins to download 50GB I'm happy enough with that
What real world download speeds are people getting in the M500 package ?
Distro coming down fast.
The peak speed on M500 has a similar increase, this table suggests up to 544Mbps.
https://www.virginmedia.com/shop/broadband/speeds
M500 has a profile of 575Mb/38.5Mb.
I have only had it a few days but I have seen 561Mb/38Mb
i was hitting 62 MB/S earlier on my distro. out of curiosity - how many connections are you using to achieve that speed ?
As I understand it they lay fibre into the road and then it coaxial into the house.
The major things here are:
Latency : Tends to be just an DOCSIS (technology) issue compared with BT (FTTC/P), unless you're a massive fast FPS online pro gamer that must have the best latency then no problem here.
Bandwidth Issues : If you live in an area with a large population and Virgin are the only people that offer broadband then you might have issues with an oversubscribed network. See if you have a local FACEBOOK group where you can ask other people opinions on Virgin or go on the Virgin forums.
Drop out : Can be local issue or backbone (we've had two backbone issues in recent memory). When this is the case I find it best not to frustrate yourself by trying to call Support, it's a fools errand, just wait for in to come back and use a mobile with 4G to create a local wifi hotspot.
If you are a new area then you get fibre, if they are just filling in a few roads within a wider coaxial area then they do coaxial.Virgin Media dug our road up around a month ago. I thought they laid coaxial? After speaking to a number of their guys they said it's fibre not coaxial. I've heard people mention latency issues and drop outs with Virgin. Is this a backbone issue or the fact they've used fibre in my street would that help?
If you are a new area then you get fibre, if they are just filling in a few roads within a wider coaxial area then they do coaxial.